Four senators sold stocks shortly after a January Senate briefing on the novel coronavirus outbreak, unloading shares that plummeted in value a month later as the stock market crashed in the face of a global pandemic.
According to financial disclosures, Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) each sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks within days of the Senate holding a classified briefing on Jan. 24 with administration officials on the threat of the coronavirus outbreak.
The sales raise questions about whether the senators violated the STOCK Act, a law that bans members of Congress from making financial trades based on nonpublic information.

A new study published on Thursday found that the fatality rates in Wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus, are “substantially lower” than initially thought.
According to findings published in Nature Medicine, scientists found that 1.4% of COVID-19 patients with symptoms had died in the Chinese city.
In the beginning of March, the World Health Organization estimated the death rate to be around 3.4%, Newsweek reported.
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